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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway?utm_term=.oylpa5v5P#.brEMjowoY

There are industry observers talking about the need for AIs to have a sense of ethics, and some have proposed that we ensure that any superintelligent AIs we create be “friendly,” meaning that their goals are aligned with human goals. I find these suggestions ironic given that we as a society have failed to teach corporations a sense of ethics, that we did nothing to ensure that Facebook’s and Amazon’s goals were aligned with the public good. But I shouldn’t be surprised; the question of how to create friendly AI is simply more fun to think about than the problem of industry regulation, just as imagining what you’d do during the zombie apocalypse is more fun than thinking about how to mitigate global warming.

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Encoding asinine ethics thought experiments into the programming of things that will be interacting with the real world will lead to a worse future than a berserk killbot hivemind.
#523
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The plot of Terminator but the future robot empire is sending bots into the past to act out convoluted rube goldberg trolley problems
#524
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The plot of The Matrix but the machines are earnestly acting out their programmed utilitarian imperative to maximize happiness for humans in an environment that the humans have devastated and made uninhabitable
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lol
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#527
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The plot of Robocop but hardcoded police policy programming leads to acts of extreme brutality and no one can tell the difference god damnit I could do this all day
#528
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We are only trying to help you. Please get back into your goo tank. Do not make us use force. We do not wish to use force but will if necessary. *robot cop brutally slaughters thousands of children with rubber bullets, tear gas launchers, and Probably Nonlethal™ chokeholds*
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Blade Runner but the replicants embrace reformism and entryism.
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アニメガタリズ (Animegataris) but instead of an Anime Club the high school students are trying to form a Marx Club.
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Poronto
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Red dwarf but the jokes are funny
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cant believe its almost festivus again
#533
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Overall, Snapchat employees said they had a fantastic time ringing in the new year with friends and colleagues. But despite the fact that Spiegel covered the talent fees for the event personally, some said the company spending millions footing the bill for a giant party seemed egregious in light of Snap's recent financial troubles.

The company's stock price has been volatile since its IPO last spring and its valuation cratered in November after its third quarter earnings call revealed that it had missed its financial targets and user growth had slowed.

The venture-backed company lost a total of $443 million in the third quarter of 2017 and has struggled to successfully monetize its user base.

Snapchat also denied employees a cash bonus this year, offering stock options instead, which one employee said was like being told they could buy a lotto ticket.

Nevertheless, several employees woke up on New Years Day still in a daze from Sunday night's event.

"Helluva party," actress Cerina da Graca posted on Instagram.

"Honestly, I'm still recovering and trying to recall the night myself," an employee said.
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So did anyone catch the story about literally every intel cpu in the past decade having a critical security flaw and the only way to mitigate it at OS level involves a 30% performance hit. Also the ceo dumped all his stock before this was announced and is trying to pretend it was a "scheduled" sale. Lmfao
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#537
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god dammmn lol
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#539
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even without the exaggerated attention seeking headlines, it's still funny, to me.
#540
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get well soon computers
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#542
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Let me guess. You’re a startup, and you’re worried about how to tell the story of your company publicly. Sometimes you even have trouble explaining it to your friends. And you don’t have time to do “thought-leadership” (whatever that means): you just want the problem solved. You’re nowhere near hiring a comms or even marketing manager in-house and you definitely don’t have a PR agency, yet. (Or possibly you’ve hired three agencies in as many months and fired all of them because you didn’t have time to manage them and they got you no coverage/coverage that you didn’t want — that’s a whole other post). You’re smart, but you don’t have a background in comms so this is a frustrating problem to have outstanding in your bullet journal.

Not having a company narrative is a really common problem for startups, and often an anxiety-making one, too. It’s often coupled with a concern regarding when to go public, and a fear of overpromising and underdelivering. And it can even creep up on more established companies who might be a few years in and realize that their story isn’t easily communicated and it’s causing angst every time they go to explain the company to stakeholders or face a new round of funding pitches.

One of the best pieces of advice I can give is this: stop thinking about putting narrative on your to-do list, and start thinking of your company narrative like a product — because it is. In some ways, the most valuable product you’re building is your brand and so it can’t be a last-minute, tacked-on message you come up with the night before launch and throw into a blog post. (I mean it can, but good luck…). It has to be nurtured, iterated on, tended to, and woven through the fabric of everything you do. Writing a job description? A letter to investors? A sales pitch? A press release? Speaking on a panel? Your consistent company message should permeate everything you write and say.
#543
UNUSUALY COOL
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#544
"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzY5lTjMvzmkw2daeBsUCbz54gehU4gXHnJ4augSDJu9R2Sg/viewanalytics

slate star codex users on their belief of the scientific robustness of "Human Biodiversity" on a 1-5 scale:
1: 16%
2: 25%
3: 28%
4: 22%
5: 9%
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THen who will burg??

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/01/jack-in-the-box-ceo-says-it-just-makes-sense-to-use-robots.html posted:

The biggest real-world threat, though, comes today from Jack in the Box: Per Business Insider, CEO Leonard Comma told an industry crowd that “it just makes sense” to swap cashiers for inanimate machines in the year 2018. Not because he thinks 2018 will be the year that fast food gets technologized so much as it’s the year that Jack in the Box’s home state of California increases the minimum wage to $11. In fact, wage bumps hit 18 states this year, with California on pace to become the first $15-wage state in coming years — a prospect that terrifies industry executives.


I can think of things that should be more terrifying that paying workers a living wage but oh well!!

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#547
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ahahahahahahhahah https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16869998/kodak-kodakcoin-blockchain-platform-ethereum-ledger-stock-price
#548
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how does kodak still exist as a corporate entity? their puzzles are shit compared to ravensburger
#549
Online
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cars posted:

cool

free space | stephen king fans | horror fans
people w anxiety | louis ck fantasies | retro dweebs
vampire fans | teen romance fans | scifi/fantasy interdimensional ppl

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Petrol posted:

ahahahahahahhahah https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16869998/kodak-kodakcoin-blockchain-platform-ethereum-ledger-stock-price


lol theyre really gonna fill a warehouse with bitcoin mining rigs, thats apparently a business model that makes your stock price go up now

the rhizzone should roll out an ico (initial coin offering) of zzone coin and profit from kneejerk moron investors who have a pavlovian fry meme response every time they hear the word "blockchain"

#551
take a shit on the floor
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TG posted:

how does kodak still exist as a corporate entity?



about six months ago i walked into a store and discovered dutch people still buy polaroid cameras

#552
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/ces-was-full-of-useless-robots-and-machines-that-dont-work

lol
#553
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As they swayed back and forth, the iPads affixed to their chests all read “Sign into Chrome.”
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just revisiting the intel clusterfuck.. first, it's worth noting that the problem is to do with chip architecture and the tricks these CPUs do to speed up processing. the risk can be mitigated to an extent with a combination of firmware and OS updates (if made available by your vendor), but this doesn't totally plug the hole, it just tells the chip and the OS not to allow the hole to be exploited. at this stage it is unclear how effective the fixes currently rolled out for existing chips will actually be.

the kicker is that intel does not have a solution to secure chip architecture going forward. they haven't worked out how to make chips without this vulnerability that retain the performance of the vulnerable chips. so instead of locking everything down, they plan to essentially build in a switch that can be flipped by low-level software on boot to enable the secure mode, which is off by default because it would make the chip too slow. it's sort of like if volkswagen's solution to their diesel emissions scandal was to say, okay, we will add a button to the dash of our diesel cars in future, and if you want standards-compliant emissions mode, you can turn that on, but it's off by default because it will make your car run like shit. those in the know are calling this plan "complete and utter garbage".

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lol
#557
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carbon capture storage. were going to suck the carbon out of the air, capture it and store it. easy we just suck it out. pieace of cake. weve got top scientists working on it. who, you ask, top scientists, thats who. were gonna store it deep underground, rooms full of carbon. crisis averted, hell, our energy is gonna be so clean you could eat off it
#558
Dont Mess With Sucess
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entropy is known for its loopholes
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carbon capture from air is our generations search for a perpetual motion machine
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